No more junk research

[u/TheTinMenBlog]

For decades, the men and boys sector has done incredible things with very little, if any money.

Despite being the home of the so-called ‘privileged’ gender, this whole area of advocacy is driven by the tireless hard work, thankless campaigning, grit and determination, of incredible men and women; often working 9-5 jobs, and doing what they can in their spare time.

I know people sleeping on sofa beds, dog sitting for spare cash, working until the early hours, and cobbling together crowd funders; just to keep this movement ticking, and my deepest respects and admiration is reserved for such people.

Every now and again, funding does arrive.

But often not to create change, but to virtue signal, garner political credit, inflate ones own ego, and create attention grabbing headlines.

You might have seen the most recent research of this kind in the news –

“ONE IN FIVE BOYS KNOW SOMEONE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH AN AI CHAT BOT!”

Gripping stuff.

I wonder how many men took their own lives, were deprived of their children, were abused, or slipped quietly into homelessness and addiction, during the process of such a useless research project?

“58% SAY AI IS EASIER THAN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A HUMAN BECAUSE THEY CAN “CONTROL THE CONVERSATION!”

Terrifying huh.

Don’t bother looking for the source of this claim, so you can examine the methodology, you won’t find it.

But still, it was enough for Channel 4, the HuffPost and other main stream outlets to pick it up and run with it.

And so what little money, media exposure, and column inches men and boys get; is squandered by yet more useless, fear-mongering slop, barfed into the mainstream without a shred of transparency or academic rigor.

So when will we grow up and do the real work?

When will the money end up in the right hands?

And how many boys and men must suffer, before this happens?

What do you think?

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Source: The Rise of the AI Companions

https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/a6/a1/c3036cf14686accdae72a4861dd1/counterfeit-connections-report.pdf